Dmitry Kovtun, one of two suspects in the murder of former FSB officer Alexander Litvinenko, has offered to testify before the London court that is investigating the case. Kovtun is ready to speak at the hearing via video link from Moscow. When exactly the meeting with his participation will take place is still unknown. "This is, to put it mildly, an unexpected turn of events," said a spokesman for the late Marina Litvinenko's widow.

In Nagorno-Karabakh, a battle took place between the servicemen of Azerbaijan and the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic. According to the Armenian side, the Azerbaijani "sabotage group" attacked one of the strongholds. The Karabakh military repulsed the attack and destroyed the enemy. NEWS.am reported that 12 Azerbaijani servicemen were killed. The loss of the Karabakh army, according to the publication, amounted to three people killed and four wounded.

The Minister of Health of the Russian Federation Veronika Skvortsova denied reports that professor-cardiologist Edmund-Mikhail Lude committed suicide due to cancer, as well as that he was refused hospitalization. According to Skvortsova, he was not diagnosed with cancer during the life of the professor. Oncological disease was revealed only at autopsy. The deceased was affected by the upper lobe of the lung: the minister said that the disease was not accompanied by pain.

The Gazprom-Media holding again nominated Ekaterina Pavlova, the former general director of the Ekho Moskvy radio station, to the same post. This was announced by the official representative of the holding Inna Moskaleva. Pavlova said she was ready to take the position offered to her. The chief editor and shareholder of the radio station Alexei Venediktov opposed the appointment of Pavlova. “We are against changing the CEO in principle, even if they offer Buffett or Soros,” he said.

The Dutch TV channel RTL News reported that fragments of a Buk anti-aircraft missile were found at the crash site of a Boeing near Donetsk. The metal fragments were found and taken away by journalist Jeroen Akkermans, who visited the crash site in November 2014. Experts studied these fragments and came to the conclusion that they are fragments of a rocket. According to RTL News, this conclusion was made on the basis of a chemical analysis of the fragments.

On March 19, it became known that Roskomnadzor prohibits not only to describe the methods of committing suicide, but even indicate the reasons why a person decided to take extreme measures. A little later, we saw on Twitter the excellent arrangement of Romeo and Juliet for the requirements of Roskomnadzor: Inspired by this fragment, Medusa imagined how classic works should look so that Roskomnadzor was satisfied.

Barack Obama advocated the introduction of compulsory voting in the United States. We analyze the innovation Photo: Antonio Perez / Zuma Press / Vida Press In most countries of the world, as in Russia, voting in elections is right, but not the duty of citizens. On March 18, US President Barack Obama said that the introduction of mandatory elections would help change the “political map of America”.

Photo: Tatiana Barybina / Yuga.ru On March 19, Russian Internet users discovered a curious photo report on the news website Ura.ru , published almost a month ago on February 23. The report features photographs from a celebration of Maslenitsa (“Pancake Week”) in the city of Stavropol, which included the creation of a giant pancake, served to the public with snow shovels.

Researchers study how police conceal the truth about crime in Russia Photo: Vladimir Velengurin / Komsomolskaya Pravda / PhotoXPress On Wednesday, March 18, the Committee for Civic Initiatives, a liberal reformist organization, presented a report to several high-ranking police officials, titled Criminal Statistics: Manageability Through Openness. ( .pdf, in Russian .) The St.

The Islamic State has claimed responsibility for a terrorist attack in Tunisia that killed 21 people. The group published an audio message calling the attack on the National Museum of Bardo "an attack on the den of the infidels." Tunisian authorities announced the arrest of nine people on suspicion of involvement in the attack on the museum.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that the publication of the Reuters agency, which found several eyewitnesses of the Boeing crash near Donetsk, looks like a stuffing. “Some witnesses who contradict each other say things that are quite amusing for any specialist. For example, some kind of wagging rocket, separating stages, a blue column of smoke,” Lavrov said.

The son of former Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov, Sergei, in December 2014, received ownership of a plot of land in the village of Komarovo near St. Petersburg, established the Alexei Navalny Anti-Corruption Fund. In 2010, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, then headed by Serdyukov, sold this site to a certain Petr Usov for 155 million rubles. On the site there is a cottage Yukhnevich - an object of cultural heritage. Whether Sergei Serdyukov got the buildings is unknown.

Why Russia threw a unique scientific ship on Sri Lanka Photo: Laboratory of geomorphology and tectonics of the bottom of the oceans of the Geological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences Since August 2013, the Russian research vessel “Academician Nikolai Strakhov” has been moored in the port of Kolombo (Sri-Lanka) since August 2013. This is one of the few ships in the country, which has the most modern equipment for studying the oceanic relief.

Continuation: Gazprom-Media decided to return Ekaterina Pavlova to the post of CEO of Ekho Moskvy The Gazprom-Media holding has scheduled a meeting of shareholders of Ekho Moskvy for June 15, at which the question of dismissing the general director of the radio station, Mikhail Demin, will be raised. This was announced by the editor-in-chief of "Echo of Moscow" Alexei Venediktov. Demin said that the management of the holding did not make any claims to his work.

The Novosibirsk prosecutor's office has appealed against the decision of the court, which closed the administrative cases against the director of the opera "Tannhäuser" Timofey Kulyabin and the director of the Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theater Boris Mezdrich. The prosecutor's office was not satisfied with the changes made to the performance. After the trial, the poster with Jesus Christ was replaced on a white sheet. “What, the production has changed from this?